No need for a comprehensive reply to your thoughts.
I like Ethang. He is more of a man and a person than you will ever be. He understands the bible in ways that just baffle persons such as yourself. Like PGA.2 he is quite competent in his understanding. Both are people whose response to your trivial nonsense is nothing short of tolerance and patience.
Your word don't mean a lot to me. You can pretend otherwise. But that is a matter for you. While you continue to lie about the bible and invent things - and try to distort it, there will always be people - genuine believers who will call you to account. Ethang has done that in the past. I am sure one day he will return to frustrate your agenda. PGA.2 will continue to do what he does.
Even Benjamin and others are getting into the act as well. Honestly, people are just sick of your hypocrisy. Even the real atheists on this site can't stand you.
The only friend you have on this site - is the Brother. And he like you is simply a charade of a strawman figure. After all, everyone knows Brother is a strawman - and his constant buffoonry mocks atheism more than it could ever actually mock Christianity. No Christian believes what he purports to believe. It really just proves how little he understands the Christian Religion. Oh yes, he can quote the bible, just as you can, but that proves only that you can cut and paste and use the computer. It does not prove you understand and can comprehend it.
But Christians - and even Jews when they read the OT, read the bible in a completely different way and manner that you. You say you have studied it for more than 40 years - and that you know it better than all of the Christians. Well I can probably agree that you have studied it for 40 years. But as for knowing it, that really is a joke. Oh yes, you can quote this place and that place. And you can probably trip up most people at times. But that is not knowing it. Jesus said a similar thing to the pharisees. the pharisees who have studied it even longer than you. They search it all day looking for salvation - but they did not have any idea what they were doing.
You don't even search it looking for life - your agenda is much more mundane. You are looking for the secret message beneath its pages. That message which you cannot prove - according to your own words - and yet believe with all of your heart is there - Stephen - that makes your agenda - faith based. It is not reason. And why can I say that? Because no one else comes to the same conclusions as you do. Oh yes, there are others. But only those who have read the same books. In other words - what you have learned from others. You don't have an original thought. (hypocrite)
Hence - why it is like water of a ducks back. Such are the circles of life - there is nothing new under the sun.